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Document Announcement
by Anne Lord 29 Nov '93

29 Nov '93

New/Revised RIPE Document Announcement -------------------------------------- A new document below is available from the RIPE document store. Ref: ripe-101 Title: List of Internet Registries in Europe Author: RIPE NCC Date: 29 November 1993 Format: TXT=29262 Short content description ------------------------- This is a list of Local Internet Registries in Europe. The document is intended to clarify who to contact if IP network numbers are needed. FTP Access ---------- All RIPE documents and Internet RFC`s are available via anonymous FTP from host ftp.ripe.net. Type "ftp ftp.ripe.net". Login with username "anonymous" supplying your email address as the password. After logging in, type "cd ripe/docs/ripe-docs" followed by the command "get ripe-101.txt". Electronic Mail Retrieval of Documents -------------------------------------- Documents can also be retrieved from the RIPE document store using a mail server program. For more information on how to use the program, send email to: mail-server(a)ripe.net with "send HELP" in the body text. RIPE NCC Interactive Information Server --------------------------------------- Type "telnet host info.ripe.net". This is a menu driven service allows the document store to be browsed. After reading documents you are prompted as to whether you would like to receive an email copy of the document you have just read. If you would, you simply enter your email address and the document will be mailed to you. Below are details of alternative methods of access. Gopher Access ------------- The same documents are available via a "gopher" server at "gopher gopher.ripe.net". WAIS Access ----------- There is also a "WAIS" server at wais.ripe.net, where there is a WAIS index for RIPE documents "ripe-docs.src" WWW Access ---------- For those who wish to add this home page at the RIPE NCC to their own customized home pages, it can be accessed as: http://www.ripe.net/ripe/default.html MIME Mail Reader ---------------- Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant Mail Reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the RIPE document. SEND ripe/docs/ripe-docs/ripe-101.txt

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IXI/EMPB X.25 Access to the RIPE NCC Terminated
by Daniel Karrenberg 22 Nov '93

22 Nov '93

The IXI/EMPB access point serving the RIPE NCC has been taken out of service last week. Since there have been a number of misunderstandings about the consequences of this, here are some clarifications: 1) This has no consequences whatsoever to the Internet (IP) connectivity of the NCC. If you where concerned about that, read no further. 2) The only service affected by this is the PAD (XXX, X.25) access to the Interactive Information Server directly from IXI/EMPB. IXI/EMPB access to the IIS was a convenience service outside the RIPE NCC core services. There are currently no efforts underway to restore it. 3) The Interactive Information Server is still reachable from the public X.25 networks (PPSDN) at (0)204129004331. This also makes it technically still reachable for IXI/EMPB subscribers, albeit at the additional expense of PPSDN charges for which many users are not authorised. 4) The IIS is of course still accessible from the Internet by telnetting to info.ripe.net. 5) The NCC was notified about the actual cut-off only at the date it happened. That the cutoff whould happen had however been announced a long time in advance and has been reported in the NCC Quarterly Reports and at RIPE meetings. Regards Daniel Karrenberg RIPE NCC Manager

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RIPE DNS Hostcount October 1993
by Marten Terpstra 02 Nov '93

02 Nov '93

Dear folks, Please find below the RIPE DNS hoctcount for October 1993. - we have reached 500,000 hosts in the DNS in Europe, this means that the number of hosts in the DNS in Europe has doubled in exactly 1 year (254,000 in October 1992) - Germany is the first European country to reach 100,000, they doubled the number of hosts in 13 months (52,000 in Sep 1992) - some countries went down after initial count; they have been recounted (in order to reach 500,000 ;-) - Macedonia (MK) has been left out of this count (sorry, forgot), but will be included in the next one. For those interested, there are no hosts currently in the DNS for MK. - All output again on ftp.ripe.net:ripe/hostcount - detailed history appended below. - also, a short description of the various columns appended below. Enjoy, -Marten CY = country SOA = number of different SOAs found in the Top level domain COUNTED = number of hosts found DUPL = number of hosts found more than once (multiple A records with the same address) REAL = COUNTED - DUPL, the real number of machines found CHANGE = change since last time. RIPE DNS Hostcount Previous Count : Sat Sep 25 1993 This Count : Sun Oct 31 1993 CY SOA COUNTED DUPL REAL CHANGE ============================================================ al 0 0 0 0 0 at 321 13790 242 13548 + 1304 be 75 6118 92 6026 + 587 bg 3 21 5 16 + 16 by 0 0 0 0 0 ch 187 35371 720 34651 + 2024 cs 97 2827 55 2772 + 99 cy 5 32 2 30 0 cz 98 4004 89 3915 + 514 de 1508 103708 3594 100114 + 3836 dk 124 7650 157 7493 + 432 dz 0 0 0 0 0 ee 20 360 2 358 + 87 eg 0 0 0 0 0 es 284 12452 93 12359 + 1267 fi 288 30661 637 30024 + 1795 fo 1 0 0 0 0 fr 601 48642 682 47960 + 1332 gb 1 16 0 16 0 ge 1 0 0 0 0 gr 90 1677 236 1441 + 349 hr 35 604 4 600 + 407 hu 37 2426 11 2415 + 590 ie 44 2161 51 2110 + 143 is 40 1516 12 1504 + 90 it 416 15513 309 15204 + 722 il 89 5477 67 5410 - 318 li 2 17 0 17 0 lt 1 0 0 0 0 lu 13 277 2 275 + 24 lv 2 48 0 48 + 10 mt 1 0 0 0 0 nl 428 40622 416 40206 + 2550 no 439 27689 238 27451 + 1184 pl 185 4038 70 3968 + 78 pt 102 3254 73 3181 + 163 ro 1 20 0 20 + 3 se 510 38568 488 38080 + 2384 si 12 511 3 508 + 27 sk 31 508 11 497 + 33 su 143 1067 54 1013 + 65 tn 1 0 0 0 0 tr 20 561 6 555 + 79 ua 35 170 14 156 + 11 uk 715 106901 10825 96076 + 8775 va 0 0 0 0 0 yu 1 1 0 1 0 ============================================================ 7007 519278 19260 500018 +30662 This is an overview of the History of the RIPE hostcounts. It only contains the totals. The totals for 1990-1991 should be considered rather unstable and unreliable because the program used then was not really tuned, plus the count was not done as regular as it is now. Count : total hostcount for all European top level domains Delta : delta since previous count Delta % : delta as percentage of previous count Q Delta : delta over the past quarter Q Delta%: delta over last quarter as percentage of end of last quarter count For the Q Deltas I have not calculated those back before 1992, because the figures for 1990-1991 are not reliable. *) Dec 1991 hostcount estimated at 135,000. Count Delta Delta % Q Delta Q Delta % ------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 1990 31724 Nov 1990 33665 + 1941 + 6.1% Dec 1990 29230 - 4435 - 13.2% Jan 1991 43832 + 14602 + 50.0% Feb 1991 - Mar 1991 44506 + 674 + 1.5% Apr 1991 46948 + 2442 + 5.5% May 1991 - Jun 1991 63267 + 16319 + 34.8% Jul 1991 - Aug 1991 73069 + 9802 + 15.5% Sep 1991 92834 + 19765 + 27.0% Oct 1991 104824 + 11990 + 12.9% Nov 1991 129652 + 24828 + 23.7% Dec 1991 - Jan 1992 141308 + 11656 + 9.0% Feb 1992 161434 + 20126 + 14.2% Mar 1992 167939 + 6505 + 4.0% + 32939 *) + 24.4% *) Apr 1992 170050 + 2111 + 1.3% May 1992 182528 + 12478 + 7.3% Jun 1992 196758 + 14230 + 7.8% + 28819 + 17.2% Jul 1992 213017 + 16259 + 8.3% Aug 1992 221951 + 8934 + 4.2% Sep 1992 232522 + 10571 + 4.8% + 35764 + 18.2% Oct 1992 254585 + 22063 + 9.5% Nov 1992 271795 + 17210 + 6.8% Dec 1992 284374 + 12579 + 4.6% + 51852 + 22.3% Jan 1993 303828 + 19454 + 6.8% Feb 1993 322902 + 19074 + 6.3% Mar 1993 355140 + 32238 + 10.0% + 70766 + 24.9% Apr 1993 366164 + 11024 + 3.1% May 1993 385522 + 19358 + 5.3% Jun 1993 404930 + 19408 + 5.0% + 49790 + 14.0% Jul 1993 426827 + 21897 + 5.4% Aug 1993 451116 + 24289 + 5.7% Sep 1993 469356 + 18240 + 4.0% + 64424 + 15.9% Oct 1993 500018 + 30662 + 6.5%

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